Lord love a duck has been ranked 41 times, wins 39. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. If you like lord love a duck you are looking for humorous, sexual and dark humor movies about with high school, misfit, teenager, teenage life, best friends, youth and romance themes of comedy, drama and romance genre shot in usa. Makes anarchy of the typical teen beach comedy that was so popular at the time. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing lord love a duck near you. George axelrods corrosively satiric lord love a duck is one of the most irreverent and cockeyed films of the 1960s. It is based on al hine s 1961 novel of the same name. If u find any movie with download link unavailable leave a comment under that movie i. Lord love a duck the 1966 movie, trailers, videos and more at yidio. Lord love a duck watch turner classic movies on tcm. The film was a satire of popular culture at the time, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach party films. Trouble is, whether funny or not, theyre poorly blended, unlike the better satires of the daythe loved one 1965, dr.
Lord love a duck looks and sounds exactly as one would expect. A bright satirical comedy about an innocent high school girl granted her wishes by a student prodigy. A broad satire of teenage culture in the sixties, its targets ranging from progressive education to beach movies. Whether or not tcm approves of the breaking of the frame, it should run the film as it was first shown, and as it is shown on the dvd. Unfortunately, the vignettes here sprawl without adding up.
Lord love a duck illustrates, with corrosive wit, how the mindless pursuit of. Check out this behind the scene look at bad boys for life. Unfortunately, when shown on tcm recently, the picture was cropped to eliminate the boom mike intrusions. Lyon, george axelrod, al hine, george axelrod, larry h. Tuesday weld and max showalter in lord love a duck 1966 roddy mcdowall and tuesday weld in lord. Lord love a duck cast and crew cast photos and info. Al hine 19151974 was a reporter, novelist, and movie producer who wrote numerous books including lord love a duck, which was made into a movie starring tuesday weld and roddy mcdowall, and pop novels based on the bewitched tv series and the beatles movie help. Synopsis this motion picture is an act of pure aggression.
High school graduation grants him opportunity to complete the job, and so. In a short documentary that comprises the sole special feature on the new dvd edition of lord love a duck, writerdirector george axelrod notes that the 1966 film is against just about everything. Black comedy satire of 1960s beach party movies, teenage exploitation films, rock and roll, and 1960s southern california teenage culture. A little known 60s classic made just at the start of the now generation.
Along the way, the satire bites teen mores, beachblanket bikini movies, adults in charge, the countryclub set. Lord love a duck 1966 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Lord love a duck 1966 one of my alltime favorite movies and tuesday weld at her best. Lord love a duck would make an excellent double feature with the loved one. Strangelove 1963 has the respect, and tony richardsons the loved one has the classy pedigree a screenplay by terry southern and christopher isherwood adapted from an evelyn waugh novel. Lord love a duck, movie, 1966 pictures provided by. Lord love a duck original motion picture sound track 1966 lord love a duck is a 1966 teen comedy starring roddy mcdowall and tuesday weld. Lord love a duck original motion picture sound track 1966.
From his prison cell, young alan musgrave roddy mcdowell relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and selfabsorbed high school senior barbara ann greene played by tuesday weld. Find movie and film cast and crew information for lord love a duck 1966 george axelrod on allmovie. Roddy played opposite a 22 year old tuesday weld, but was the same age as harvey korman as the school principal and only 3 years younger then lola albright welds mother. Find films and movies featuring malcolm brown on allmovie. A wacky satireblack comedy with high school senior mcdowall helping schoolmate weld get whatever she desires. Lord love a duck bluray disc details highdef digest. Discussing the 1966 george axelrod film, lord love a duck with special guest, julie carriker. Movie clip from the 1966 george axlerod comedy lord love a duck starring roddy mcdowall, tuesday weld, lola albright, martin west and. Happening title tune performed by the wild ones and fleshy teenage video, followed by hero alan roddy mcdowall pursued by cops, opening george axelrods outlandish lord love a duck, 1966. Buy lord love a duck movie posters from movie poster shop. Lord love a duck movie posters from movie poster shop.
Lord love a duck 1966 letterboxd your life in film. Active 1938 1966 genres drama, adventure, comedy, western, action. Lord love a duck is a 1966 teen comedy produced, directed and cowritten by george axelrod and starring roddy mcdowall and tuesday weld. Value of lord love a duck original american one sheet. It was adapted from a novel of the same name by al hine. Stella barnard in lord love a duck 1966 the film stars tuesday weld as the innocent attention seeking teenager from a broken home who aspires to become loved by everyone, wears 12 colorful cashmere sweaters given to her by friend and mastermind roddy mcdowall who was 36 at the time playing a teen. I think roddy mcdowall must have based his portrayal of the mad hatter in batman the animated series from his role in this film. This movie is bizarre and hardly follows the hollywood formula.
See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer. Lord love a duck dvd 1966 movie on dvd teen culture. Roddy mcdowall born september 17, 1928 was 36 years old, playing a high school senior, when this movie was filmed in 1965 for its february 21, 1966 release. At first glance, george axelrods, lord love a duck appears to be a satire of 60s beach party movies. Save lord love a duck dvd to get email alerts and updates on your ebay feed. Lord love a duck is the kind of movie that makes you pity marketing executives. Display as images display as list make and model make and year year category importancerole date added new ones first episode appearance ep. An unusually gifted high school senior, alan musgrave roddy mcdowall, decides to direct his mental powers toward helping an innocent new student, barbara ann greene tuesday weld, achieve her goal of popularity. Lord love a duck 1966 sacha howells 02232009 its not generally good business to antagonize your audience, but the marketing for lord love a duck, george axelrod s. Movie trailer for the 1966 george axlerod comedy lord love a duck starring roddy mcdowall, tuesday weld, lola albright, martin west and. Some movie parts of course are funnier than others. Think of it as a darker, much more savage rushmore, in which almost all the false gods of our civilization phony preachers, psychoanalysis.
The plot revolves around the attempts of high school student alan musgrave mcdowall to win the heart of barbara ann green weld by granting her every wish. Lord love a duck 1966 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Less well known but equally audacious is his goforbroke directorial debut, lord love a duck 1966, a poisonous love letter to the movie business that nourished him and a satire of southern california culture with its drivein chapels, fast food restaurants, and selfimprovement seminars. Lord love a duck is a 1966 black comedy film directed by george axelrod and starring roddy mcdowall and tuesday weld.
1124 1380 678 1548 897 798 690 620 1058 64 746 653 447 736 1127 257 876 1473 1389 1027 1395 1421 1269 1102 1042 152 401 835 166 271 433 565 869 873 1463 633 387 1297 1384 1495 1375 77 811 936 799 689 483 758 349 207